Summer Transfer Window Day 11
The Spurs Squad
For the first time any of us can remember we are making determined efforts to bring in players before the start of our pre-season tour to South Korea around 7th July, first game 13th July.
Tottenham have 4 official supporters clubs in South Korea and have the largest fanbase of any team outside the country. It took just 25 minutes to sell 66,000 tickets for our first game.
In addition Tottenham is the home for both the men's and women's national team captains of South Korea.
The basis of our squad are now well versed in the Conte system and our first signing, Ivan Perišić played for Conte at Inter Milan.
Should Eriksen sign, he has played it too under Conte.
If you loom at our other signing, all have a Juventus connection, Cristian Romero, Rodrigo Bentancur and Dejan Kulusevski.
I think we can safely say that all three are intelligent footballers, they have the right mentality, something we seem to be focusing on more before we sign a player (much to my delight!).
Getting those with the right mentality is vital to getting players who settle quickly as often players can take a season. That for me is always a worrying sign that they may not be the player we hoped they would be in the Premier League.
That second season becomes important although statistically a players third season is his best season.
You are all aware of hoe Paratici works now, lining up multiple deals in principle with outline transfer fees and player requirements before seeing who fits into the overall jigsaw that is squad building.
Here is an example.
Goalkeepers
- Mamardashvili (Valencia) 21
- Forster (Free Agent) 34 SIGNED
Right Wing-Back
- Spence (Middlesbrough) 21
- Singo (Torino) 21
- Dodo (Shakhtar Donetsk) 23
- Mæhle (Atalanta) 25
- Hakimi (PSG) 23
Right Centre-Back
Centre Centre-Back
- Carmo (Braga) 22
Left Centre-Back
- Bastoni (Inter) 23
- Torres (Villarreal) 25
- Ndicka (Eintracht Frankfurt) 22 - Now a main target
- Badiashile (Monaco) 21
- Hincapié (Bayer Leverkusen) 20
- Lenglet (Barcelona) 27
- Gvardiol (RB Leipzig) 20
- Zabarnyi (Dynamo Kyiv) 19
- Bremer (Torino) 25 - played 26 as LCB, 4 as CCB, 2 as RCB - Main target
Left Wing-Back
- Udogie (Hellas Verona) 19
- Kostić (Eintracht Frankfurt) 29
- Wijndal (AZ Alkmaar) 22
- Perišić (Free Agent) 33 SIGNED
Central Midfield
- Paquetá (Lyon) 24
- Zieliński (Napoli) 28
- McKennie (Juventus) 23
- Ward-Prowse (Southampton) 27
- McGinn (Aston Villa) 27
- Bissouma (Brighton) 25 SIGNED
Central Attacking Midfield
- Eriksen (Free Agent) 30
- De Ketelaere (Brugge) 21
- Maddison (Leicester City) 25
Right Wing-Forward
- Raphinha (Leeds United) 25
- Antony (Ajax) 22
- Saint-Maximin (Newcastle United) 25
Centre-Forward
- Martínez (Inter) 24 - can't see it myself
- Osimhen (Napoli) 23
- Richarlison (Everton) 25 - Everton asking too much at present
- Scamacca (Sassuolo) 23 - wants to stay in Italy
- Jesus (Manchester City) 25
- Brereton Díaz (Blackburn Rovers) 25
- Saša Kalajdžić (VfB Stuttgart) 24
Left Wing-Forward
- Carrasco (Atlético Madrid) 28
There are 41 deals that have had to be sounded out for a start and it is by no means a complete list.
You have a list of what you ideally need, a list of absolute essentials, an outline cost of every potential deal, a transfer budget, a wages budget, a sales list, both potential and essential and minimum and maximum income list.
Once you have the complete picture then you put together a jigsaw puzzle with your ideal scenario, contingency plans, keeping in mind the finite financial resources at your disposal.
It is, to use a technical term, bloody complicated and a lot of planning work before you even get to buy a player.
Emerson Royal
I informed you a couple of days ago that the offers we were receiving, and there are plenty of them, were not to our satisfaction.
As an example, Atlético Madrid are offering a loan deal with an option to buy for Emerson Royal, but we want either an outright sale or a loan with an obligation to buy.
Richarlison
Everton are simply talking stupid money as if he were prolific like Kane or Son, he isn't.
Whilst we want him, we are not going to pay anywhere near the asking price at the moment so we have moved on as we wish to sign early, not wait until later in the window.
Gleison Bremer and Evan Ndicka are now our two main centre-back targets.
Bremer would be around £26-30m (€30-35m) and Ndicka around £19m €22m).
Djed Spence we are trying to get done this week and we can then look at Christian Eriksen or alternative and a striker who can play across all three positions.
If you think about it, the fees for Spence, Bremer, Ndicka and a potential Eriksen alternative impact on what we can spend on a forward.
I haven't had time to go through and add to that list yet but it gives you an idea of the complexities of the preparation that must take place before you start to put your transfer jigsaw together.
I have been asked if we are looking to get our buying business done before we go to South Korea and the quick answer is yes, we are trying to and on that front it is all hands to the pump.
Daniel Levy had a meeting with Martin Schoots who is Christian Eriksen's agent last week, so despite what you might read elsewhere they get on well.
If they didn't they wouldn't have met, Schoots could have dealt with Fabio Paratici.
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